Cause you know, we're, we're stuck in that thing of, I just want to get the shirts...this, this project off the table before I start adding more projects because my team, you know, like my team stressed out, like they need some time off and you know, it's, it's a lot of manual printing going on downstairs. It's um… Anyhow. I don't even think if we would have had an auto, it would have helped solve the issue with this. I mean, it's, you know, the runs aren't massive, you know, like the most, I think one shop sold like 200, but it was all hundreds, you know, the fifties, eighties, like they, weren't huge runs. It's all one color. So it's not like a lot of work. Um, and we didn't add any extra stuff to it, as some people put like a “Here For Good” logo on it, or, some people asked us if we'd print the “Here For Good” logo on it. And we're like, no...just trying to make it the least amount of work possible. Marshall Atkinson So did you ship it or do they come by and pick it up? Jarrod Hennis So yeah. So say, say you went on the website and there were six businesses that you loved and you bought a shirt from each business. Cause you're like, wow, I want to support local. I want to support all these local communities. Well, we weren't printing all six of those businesses at once. So then, what's the process of shipping? Do you completely ship them all when they're done, which one could have sold 201 could have sold one t-shirt, uh, you know, so how do you prioritize that? And that's been a lot of the hiccups. I would love to know insight on anyone that had a better idea on that, but we, so we lost a lot of money on shipping, um, a lot of, lot of money. Uh, so I think, halfway through, we then added on delivery. So we're charging five bucks for delivery and I was paying my friend's wife five bucks to deliver it. So it was a no-money thing, but it was just convenience. And then we started doing curbside pickup only a couple of weeks ago because we didn't have enough people, you know, cause the whole protocol is then I have to have someone just answering the phone, running shirts out all day while someone is packing and you know, it was, we just didn't have the manpower and I didn't want to hire more people on it at the moment. Uh, so yeah, right now we're still doing shipping and local delivery and curbside pickup, but it was all shipping. At the start it was flat rate shipping, someone asked if they could pick it up in the store, but you know, how do you manage 8,000 orders? You know, that's the that's the hard part of 8,000 orders was the, I think that's what we ended up having over the two and a half months. Marshall Atkinson So all in all looking back. Do you give it two thumbs up? Jarrod Hennis Uh, yeah, I mean, for sure, like, you know, it was a learning experience. We learned a lot. We are going to grow from this, you know, it helped us, it gave us cash flow for two months. Uh, you know, and now it's just back to the normal grind to figuring out what the new normal is. But the badge on this whole thing was we got to pay out a $100,000 to 400 businesses in our community.
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